Nick Cannon’s Talk Show Canceled After One Season

variety.com:

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentNick Cannon’s daytime talkshow is coming to an end after one season, Variety has learned.Staffers at “The Nick Cannon Show” were informed at work Thursday morning that the show would not be renewed for a second season, and that it would be the final day of production.

However, enough episodes have been pre-taped and banked, so that the show will finish out its season with original episodes airing through sometime in May.While the cancellation is sudden, the abrupt ending isn’t quite as abrupt as it may seem for the show’s crew and producers — insiders say that a five-week hiatus was already previously planned, due to Cannon’s busy schedule with responsibilities for his long-running Viacom improv show “Wild ‘N Out” and Fox’s hit primetime series “The Masked Singer,” which he hosts.

The hiatus was set to start next week, which means staff would have returned to work in mid-April. Now, with the show suddenly ending for good, a production source tells Variety that staffers will be getting paid for a handful of weeks, though just how long that payment will last is unclear.Cannon’s cancellation does not come as a major surprise, as the show never hit a ratings stride with a 0.4 season-to-date.“It’s never easy to cancel a production with clear potential, but after a great deal of deliberation and examining various options, we have made the difficult business decision to end production on ‘Nick Cannon,'” said Mort Marcus and Ira Bernstein, co-presidents of the show’s producer-distributor, Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury.